All About Our Weekend!

We had a wonderful weekend at home enjoying the beautiful weather! Here's a list of what went on with us this weekend!

1.  Bring on the springtime weather! We love being outside playing and enjoying the sun!

2.  Braxton is growing so much every day.  From talking, walking, and playing, it's amazing to watch him grow and discover new things. 

3.  We are amazed at how much Braxton has learned after completing only 2 months of the "Your Baby Can Read" series.  We have many more to do before the end, so I can only imagine how well it works in the end!  I'm working on a video to put on our blog to show you his progress.  He can read "Hi", "Clap", "Smiling", "Yes", "No", "Nap", Roll Over", etc.  Braxton would rather watch these videos than watch cartoons, which is great!  When we turn on his "movie", he automatically sits down and watches it, which he will not do with cartoons.  I can't wait to show you all! It's truly unbelievable.

4.  I am not as limber as I once was! After getting a spurt of energy Sunday afternoon, I decided to show Braxton how I could do a hand-stand and a cartwheel.  Needless to say, I'm a little sore this morning! It was alot of fun, and he enjoyed watching and laughing at me!  He also tried to do his own hand-stand, which was adorable! :)

5.  We have an interesting Mexican couple living a few houses down from us.  They are really annoying with their VERY LOUD Mexican music playing all the time.  This weekend while Phillip and Braxton were outside working in the garage, Braxton heard the insanely loud Mexican music, walked down the driveway to see what was going on, then started DANCING in the driveway to their music! I wish I would've been out there to witness this!  I'm still laughing just picturing it!

6.  Talking about the Mexicans again..  They have this very old Volkswagon Beetle that they are working on constantly.  Every weekend, they pull it out of their garage, pop the hood, and start raising the engine on it.  It's not that bad until Braxton is trying to take a nap, THEN I get a little mad.  Anyways, after working on their car yesterday, the wife decided she was going to take it for a spin.  She got in the car, drove it down the road in our neighborhood, turned around, and tried to put it in reverse, which she couldn't figure out how to do.  Then, her husband had to go walk all the way down the road to show her how to reverse the car, and bring it back to the house.  All this is going on, and the music is still BLARING from their house.  We enjoy watching them.  They're very entertaining!

7.  This weekend I learned that no matter how hard I try, I cannot throw a frisbee! After almost knocking the windows out of the house, and throwing the frisbee on top of the house, we decided to give up.  Phillip tried to teach me some of his frisbee throwing skills, and it helped a little.  It's going to take much more practicing though!

8.  Braxton loves playing with sticks!  When we go outside, he will walk past his new trampoline, swingset, trucks, and balls to go find a stick!  It's quite funny, but it makes me happy that he enjoys the outdoors.  He loves to walk around with his stick and kick at pinecones!

9.  After 18 months, Braxton is still afraid of the vacuum cleaner!  You would think that over time, he would grow to be more comfortable with it, but he's not.  He starts breathing hard and shaking when we get it out to clean!  He really does NOT like it at all.

10.  After a very busy Sunday, all we wanted to do was have a relaxing night.  Yeah right.. What were we thinking?!  After finishing cleaning up the kitchen after supper, Phillip said, "I'm going to sit down for a few minutes." And I replied, "So am I!"  As I turn off the light in the kitchen, all of a sudden we hear a loud noise in the foyer.  Guess what it was?!  It was the noise of Braxton dumping out his box of 250-piece lego blocks onto the floor!  Phillip looked at me and said "GREAT!!" and I replied, "IT NEVER ENDS!!!"  :)

Happy Monday, everyone!